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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursuance of the suggestions contained in the editorial of your Wednesday issue, I have been making inquiries as to the nature and purpose of the proposed Harvard Scout Club, and also as to the origin and destiny of the recent questionnare, in order to dispel some uncertainties and delusions which seem to be at present in the minds of some of the recipients of the cards...
...Enemies" both interesting and instructive. There is perhaps little reason to quarrel with his analysis that "subservience, timidity, and illiberality in the American college" are caused in the first place by the peculiarly inimate relations between public opinion and schools for higher education at the time of their origin and at present, and in the second by the "uncertain state of the sciences or inquiries that deal with social matters." Yet the solution he offers is on the surface somewhat unsatisfactory to the impatient mind of youth...
...hitherto undisclosed Chinese Buddhist chapel of very ancient origin has been discovered by Mr. Langdon Warner, the first American to ever undertake, on behalf of an American university, a search for ancient art in western China. Mr. Warner was formerly Director of the Pennsylvania museum, but is now a member of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University and on the staff of the Fogg Art Museum. He has just returned from a year's trip on foot along the 3000 year old Indo-Chinese route...
...trade route he discovered a Buddhist chapel dating back to the 5th century A. D. British and French expeditions which were active in China before the war had failed to discover this chapel. It is, with one exception, the westernmost example of North Wei culture. More of its origin Mr, Warner believes can be determined by the interpretation by other authorities at Harvard of a stone slab found nearby and which he brought back with...
...treatment of disease caused dissension in the Board of General Appraisers. Most of the members said that dried and powdered ovaries and pituitary glands are subject to 10% duty. Judge Brown said such things should be free of duty because they are natural and uncompounded drugs of animal origin...